Aatma Performing Arts
Redesigned the website of a local dance company to enhance usability, improve navigation, and create a seamless user experience that meets the needs of its growing audience
My Role
Student UX Designer
Timeline
5 weeks
Tools
About Project
Aatma Performing Arts is a renowned dance company in New jersey offering different services. As they keep growing, their website traffic has tremendously increased over the years. Through this study, I aim to improve the overall usability and enhance the user experience of the website such that it caters to its user needs as perfectly as possible.
Problem
Though they have a visually appealing website, initial user research and heuristic evaluation have revealed many issues with navigation, wayfinding, content quality, and booking processes affecting the user experience negatively. Being an established company, enhancing their quality of the website is crucial as this platform is the first place of visit for potential people interested in using Aatma’s services.
Goals
Identify critical issues
Enhance user satisfaction through clear, up-to-date content
Provide quick access to information
Easy website navigation
Easy enrollment process in the dance school
Hassle-free costume booking process
Process
Heuristics Evaluation
User Research
I conducted an online survey to determine my targeted audience, their goals and pain points and also get an idea about how to approach making improvements for the website. The survey had 33 questions including user demographics, personality, goals and usability of the current sites and I recorded 11 responses.
In the next step, we created 4 personas that best represent our target audience and the primary users of the website.
User Stories
As a prospective student, I want to find complete class information so that I can understand what their classes offer.
As a person always on-the-go, I want to be able to find information quickly so that I can make quick decisions.
As a performer, I want to be able to easily rent costumes at an affordable rate for my performances so that I don't have to worry about getting them stitched on time
I performed another usability test by creating specific tasks within the domain of these three user stories. This test helped me to pinpoint issues within the website and understand the specifics of what we are trying to solve here.
Issues discovered
Interactive Prototype
View Prototype
Things I learned
How to do a heuristic evaluation
Creating user stories
Conducting think-aloud and task-based interviews
